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Chocolate Coffee Truffles – Low Carb and Gluten-Free

There is nothing that says Merry Christmas like a little box of homemade chocolate truffles. Bonus points if they are low carb, gluten-free and they don’t taste like it for even a second. And that, my friends, describes this chocolate coffee truffle recipe perfectly. Which is somewhat astonishing, since this one was one of those hope and pray experiments. Hope that my unsweetened chocolate didn’t seize. Pray that the mixture firmed up enough to be shaped into truffles and rolled in delicious coatings. A fingers-crossed endeavor all around. Honestly, I’ve managed to trick many of you into thinking that I know what I am doing when it comes to low carb cooking. But if you saw me in the kitchen, when I am taking a big gamble on something, you might reconsider that image. Sometimes I am working with a base recipe that I know will pan out regardless. But at other times, it feels like sheer dumb luck that I get good results. And in this case, better than good results. Insanely, decadently delicious results. Phew, dodged a bullet!

I’ve made low carb hazelnut truffles before, and they were very good but they didn’t have that dense, soft, slightly gooey sweetness I was looking for. Because I was attempting to make them with my low carb nutella recipe, they inevitably had a slight grittiness from the nut butter, and I don’t think I sweetened them quite enough. In short, they were good but didn’t quite live up to my expectations of what a chocolate truffle should be. But hey, no one ever said going low carb was easy.

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Still, when I managed to nail my low carb sweetened condensed milkrecipe, I suddenly had hope again. Because in the non low-carb world, the easiest truffles to make are those where you simply melt chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk together. Melt, stir, cool, scoop and voila! Chocolate truffles. I thought maybe, just maybe, the same process would work for low carb truffles. But I wasn’t perfectly certain, since unsweetened chocolate and commercial chocolate chips are very different creatures. Unsweetened chocolate is a tricky little devil and likes to seize at the slightest provocation…a little too much heat, a little too much liquid, and you end up with a gloppy mess that takes a lot of coaxing to smooth out again. And sometimes it downright refuses to do so.

However, I thought it was worth a try. I hate nothing more than wasting ingredients, but it’s the holiday season and my readers deserve truffles. Heck, I deserve truffles too! So I went at this very carefully. I wanted a little coffee flavouring, and I knew that some additional sweetener would need to be added. I chopped the chocolate very finely to help it melt, and I held back on some of it, thinking that too much would surely cause a seizure (no, not in me…in the chocolate!). But then I worried that I didn’t add enough and that it wouldn’t firm up properly when cool. And then I did the hope and pray thing.

And it worked. Far better than I even imagined, actually. They came out exactly like traditional truffles, both in consistency and taste. I can honestly say that you could give these to anyone and they wouldn’t have a clue that they were low carb and gluten free. And I had a little fun with the coatings. For some, I rolled them in a combination of cocoa powder and instant coffee granules, to amp up that coffee flavour. And for others, I rolled them in cacao nibs, to get some crunch. Other possibilities are chopped nuts or powdered sweetener. Whatever you want to make them pretty and festive. You deserve it!

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Yes, yes, we all deserve truffles! Had the same problems with LC truffles you mentioned. Sometimes good, sometimes not good at all. Excited to try them with your sweetened condensed milk, which is heavenly.

Any tricks so erythritol isn’t gritty? I powder it in a coffee grinder & mix in it well, but it’s still gritty. Love the taste, but a smoother texture would be great.

Oh my dear…the only way to avoid the grittiness of granulated erythritol is to buy commercially powdered erythritol. Sometimes, it’s so fine, it’s like dust! Can you get any in your area or order it online?

So glad that you’re taking risks in the kitchen to perfect low carb recipes for us, Carolyn 🙂 Your truffles look insanely delicious! Since I’m not a baker, I don’t cook much with chocolate, but I eat my fair share and the LC condensed milk recipe is brilliant!

I tried making these twice now and they will not firm correctly. It’s basically a delicious pot of goop at the end. I’m not exactly a novice in the baking/treats area and these are honestly exhausting. Do you have any tips for making sure the consistency is correct besides praying?

What kind of chocolate did you use? If it’s too goopy, you might want to add cocoa powder to thicken it. But I’ve made this recipe numerous times so I am not sure beyond the brand of chocolate what the issue is.

Sounds so good. I think I will make them for Valentine Day.
You say: Each truffle has 2.3 g of carbs and .9 g of fiber
And a serving is 2 truffles.
Does that mean I need to double the carbs if I eat one serving of 2 truffle?

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